Leading Virtual Teams

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Course Specifications

Course number: 088748
Course length: 1.0 day(s)

Course Description

You have the general leadership skills you need to lead a team. You may even have successfully led a team. Now, though, you’ve been asked to lead a virtual team. In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills you need to lead a high-performance virtual team.

Course Objective: You will practice skills and apply principles for leading virtual teams so your team can achieve high-performance status.

Target Student: This course is intended for team leads, managers, and first-time managers with no virtual team experience.

Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this course are general team leadership skills.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• put together a virtual team poised for success.
• create a virtual work environment that supports vteam culture.
• respond to external influences so vteam contributions are relevant and understood.
• ensure vteam success so the team can achieve its potential for high performance.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Putting Together a VTeam

Topic 1A: Establish VTeam Priorities
Topic 1B: Obtain VTeam Resources
Topic 1C: Identify Cultural Differences
Topic 1D: Establish VTeam Culture

Lesson 2: Creating a VTeam Work Environment

Topic 2A: Choose Technology
Topic 2B: Train a VTeam

Lesson 3: Responding to External Influences

Topic 3A: Be a VTeam Ambassador
Topic 3B: Manage Reactions to External Sources of Change

Lesson 4: Ensuring VTeam Success

Topic 4A: Manage VTeam Performance
Topic 4B: Celebrate VTeam Success